[Cryptography] Secure erasure in C.

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Tue Sep 13 21:07:44 EDT 2016


Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> writes:

>I seem to remember that in Linux a lot of cache management macros turn to no-
>ops.

So now there's also a hardware equivalent of the compiler optimising away your
zeroise operation...

There was a talk by someone from Synopsis at an embedded Linux conf a few
years ago that gave a good overview of the implications of big.LITTLE under
Linux, let me see...

http://elinux.org/images/8/8c/DVFS_for_ARM_CortexA15_A7.pdf

Peter.


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